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Mint Sauce – no sugar

June 19, 2016 By Tracey 5 Comments

In the last few days, I made the decision to cut out all refined sugars from my diet for a while and re-assess after a period. Of course any time a common ingredient is cut from ones diet, everything turns to shambles – what the %^&* am I going to eat now?  The fact that I even asked myself that question strongly suggests that maybe I do eat too much refined sugar.

The problem with this is that we recently started having slow cooked lamb with mint sauce once a week.  I got a nice lamb leg from the butcher. So seemingly, I am set to go for my roast lamb with mint sauce dinner right? No! I check the mint sauce and the mint gel in my pantry and it is all loaded with at least a couple of teaspoons of added sugar each serve.  I panick. What am I going to have on my lamb? I fantasize about mint sauce.  So this totally put a huge spanner in the works. Store brought mint sauce is a sugar fest and I don’t think it needs to be.

Natural Mint Sauce

A short trip up the road later, and I got myself a bunch of fresh mint.  The goal: to make a very quick simple natural delicious mint sauce. The result is perfect – love it. I will admit I did experiment with different vinegars first. Much as I adore apple cider vinegar, the white vinegar just worked so much better with bringing out the pure clean flavor of the mint.

This recipe makes half a cup of natural mint sauce and because it has no sugar and only goodness, you can have as much as you like without any guilt – in fact, the more the better. Personally, I just wanted to drink it (okay so I drank a tablespoon) – love that mint flavor. It makes me feel kind of zippy and uplifted.  Looking forward to having this slathered over my lamb tonight.

5.0 from 2 reviews
NATURAL MINT SAUCE
 
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Prep time
12 mins
Total time
12 mins
 
Author: www.myfoodtemple.com
Serves: Makes half a cup
Ingredients
  • A bunch of mint (the standard bunch sold at the stores)
  • ¼ cup boiling water
  • ¼ cup white vinegar
Instructions
  1. Wash mint and tear off leaves
  2. Place leaves in a mini blender and blend
  3. Transfer leaves to a bowl
  4. Pour boiling water over mint leaves
  5. Let them soak for 10 minutes
  6. Add the white vinegar
  7. Stir and place into an air tight jar in fridge until serving time.
  8. Shake before serving.
Notes
This is fantastic with roast or slow cooked lamb.
3.5.3208

 

Filed Under: Dairy Free, Gluten Free, Recipe Post, Sauces and Marinades, Vegetarian Tagged With: Mint

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Comments

  1. Sonia Komorowski says

    February 26, 2017 at 5:03 pm

    How long will this safely keep?

    Reply
    • Tracey says

      February 28, 2017 at 12:28 pm

      Hi Sonia,
      As it is so quick and easy to make, I always make it fresh and use it on the day, as the flavor is best fresh.

      Cheers,
      Tracey

      Reply
  2. Vanessa “Mum “ says

    May 12, 2021 at 8:01 am

    Thank you so much for your sugar free mint sauce, I’m horrified that people don’t realise how much sugar is in a pot of sauce, I have stopped buying it and told my family and friends about your recipe, x

    Reply
    • Tracey says

      September 8, 2022 at 10:58 am

      Yes, so true. Thanks so much for your message.

      Reply
  3. Julie says

    December 15, 2022 at 6:35 am

    finally, some no added sugar recipes

    Reply

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